If you have maps or figures these can add another 2 pages, or be embedded in the text. Formats for sources are flexible–use what you are used to: footnotes or not, references numbered or not.
*YOU MUST CONNECT each reference to the part(s) of the paper where it is used.*
For your Watershed Paper, you will look at 1 or 2 medium sized watersheds in the Netherlands
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• You will look at the current water status of the watershed: quantity and quality of supply and demand.
• You will look at the cities and/or industries which are stressing the water-shed(s). The stresses might include additional population, additional or changed agriculturalpractices, dams, new industries, forestry or any of the other behaviors or natural changes that de Villiers or I talk about in this section of the course.
• Finally, looking ahead 15-20 years, what is the likely future scenario of the stresses on your watershed(s). Do NOT include climate change ALONE as one of these future stresses–but you may use it in combination with other stresses.
Helpful Hints:
1) Discuss the characteristics and severity of any current water crisis and the situation 15-20 years from now (including human and other ecological impacts).
2) When choosing the watershed(s) you’re going to work on, tell the reader where they are in the country and what goes on there.
**Including at least one map is strongly advised.**
If possible, talk about what it is (was) like with minimum human activity and what it is like now. If there are plans for the near future already laid out, those can be covered in the section on the future below [5)].
3) Is there a water crisis currently in these watersheds? If not, has there been one in the past few years or decades? If so, how severe is it? Remember that you’re looking at all members of the ecosystem (not just humans). Use de Villiers’ early chapters as a guide to this part. You can sometimes say clearly yes, or clearly no. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
4) Are there any obvious policy or other economic measures that you could (would) introduce to ease the situation TODAY. You must justify these, so please don’t list a bunch of ‘pie-in-the-sky’ measures (make sure they are somewhat feasible/practical/viable options).
5) Looking 15-20 years ahead and using your knowledge from the urban part of the course: What do you think the watershed(s) is (are) going to look like?
6) Repeat 4) for the future situation. Has a water crisis appeared where there was none before? Has the crisis worsened if it was there before? Discuss the policy and economic measures in the future context.
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